MENTAL HEALTH CONCEPTS STUDY GUIDE REVIEW

MENTAL HEALTH CONCEPTS STUDY GUIDE REVIEW

1.Mental health is: *a successful adaption to internal and external stressors
*age appropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
2.Adaptive coping mechanisms:: *positive self esteem
*positive relationships
*reality oriented
*effective problem solver
*communicate effectively
*control emotions
*reason logically
*risk taker
*dynamic and adjust PRN
3.Mental illness:: *clinically significant behavioral pattern or psychological
syn- drome
4.Mental illness is associated with:: *distress or disability
5.Increased risk of suffering causing:: *loss of freedom
*isolation
*pain
*death
6.Mental health-illness continuum:: *Health
-reality oriented